Bollywood Robots and Sunday Linkstew

I finally got to see Endhiran/Robo/Robot (2010) via Blockbuster On Demand. Despite the lack of sub-titles, dubbing or more than 5% of the dialog being in English, this is easily one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last year. Nobody does musical romantic comedy sci-fi mash-ups better than Bollywood!

I got my contributors’ copies of Steampunk Magazine #9, and gang, the free PDF doesn’t do it justice: go buy the thing!

John Mellencamp tells a mean ghost story. Explaining the origins of “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” — a collaborative country-rock album written with Stephen King and produced by T-Bone Burnett — he details murder, mayhem and mutilation in grisly detail, with a keen sense of the absurd and a sheepish admission of his own cowardice in the face of creepy.

Source: Gunman Had Mental Issues. Well, as long as there’s “no link to domestic or international terror”, I guess there’s nothing to see here, then. Until he started shooting people he was one of those “responsible gun owners” we hear so much about. I mean he only had 1000 rounds on him, what’s the fuss?